 | George Anne Bellamy - 1785 - 250 pages
...You, however, abound with worldly wifdom, though you are not learned; and think with Ralph, that " He who fights and runs away, " May live to fight another day. " But he that is in battle flain, " Will never rife to fight again." Cowardice is the concomitant of... | |
 | George Anne Bellamy - Actors - 1786 - 262 pages
...You,however, abound with worldly ivifdom, though y/oxi are not learned', and think with Ralph, that " He who fights and runs away, " May live to fight another day. " But he that is in battle (lain, " Will never rife to fight again," Cowardice I Cowardice is the concomitant... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - Electrotherapeutics - 1804 - 242 pages
...Rowland was preparing himself to give Learherhead a most terrible threshing, had he not yielded) still, ' He who fights and runs away, ' May live to fight another day ;' and the Doctor escaping with a whole skin is now left alive and mighty to assail the supporters... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - American poetry - 1806 - 326 pages
...Rowland was preparing himself to give Leatherhead a most terrible threshing, had he not yielded) still " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day ;" and the doctor escaping with a whole skin is now left alive and mighty to assail the supporters... | |
 | Stewarton - France - 1806 - 484 pages
...Lordship's most humble, and most obedient Servant (Signed) " The French General, B OY i R." ADMIRAL LINOIS. He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day. THE impolitic and selfish conduct of most of the Continental Princes, has done as much to advance the... | |
 | English literature - 1809 - 602 pages
...hope or fear, generated by an affrighted fancy, till the actual presence of the enemy taught us that " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." The brigadier, feeling the force of the complaint which we urged against the destructive and " unnecessary... | |
 | Enguerrand de Monstrelet - France - 1810 - 528 pages
...of other captains, and english gentlemen bearing coats of arms. Conformably to the old proverb, of ' He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day/ did those act who fled and left their companions to bear the brunt of the battle. namely, Matago, sir... | |
 | Charles Molloy Westmacott - English literature - 1814 - 402 pages
...August JI " Discretion i» the better part of valour." ONE warrior said, and who '11 gainsay ? That " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day:" But gallant My doth surpass The valiant Rero, Hiulibras, For For Sir Johu'holds that it is right To... | |
 | Robert Huish - 1820 - 848 pages
...that any Hudibras existed at the time when honest Rupert graced this lower hemisphere, viz.— % That he who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day; And Rupert, in the plenitude of his sagacity, did THE CASTLE OF NIOLO. 387 more than many persons do... | |
 | John Chambers - Worcestershire (England) - 1820 - 634 pages
...and there is also a miniature of him in the possession of W. Welch, Esq. of Hawford. Of the lines " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day," which have been so often attributed to Butler, and on which so many wagers have been lost and won,... | |
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He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day. 
